Schott's Acacia (Acacia schottii)

   

• Common English Names: Schott's Acacia
• Common Spanish Names: None known
• Scientific Name: Acacia schottii (ah-KAY-shuh SHOT-tee-eye)
• Family: Fabaceae (Legume Family)
• Geographic Range: Endemic to extreme southern Brewster and Presidio Counties, Trans-Pecos Texas, and adjacent Chihuahua, Mexico.
• Plant Form: Woody shrub, 2 to 4' tall.
• Landscape Use: None
• Remarks: Globular yellow flowering heads in summer produce thin curling legumes with dark glands. Normally a thorny shrub with small, thin, linear leaflets on 1-2 pairs of pinnae. Locally restricted to slopes, plains and washes in gypseous clay soils derived from silty, cream to tan colored Cretaceous limestone.

Last Update: 2 Jun 2008